In his first-ever interview, the sole Australian survivor of the Waco siege has revealed to 60 Minutes what really took place during the 51-day stand-off, and why he believes crazed cult leader David Koresh will one day return to Earth as the son of God.

Dank deserves minimal compensation: lawyer

Sports scientist Stephen Dank should receive the bare minimum in damages over an article that suggested he injected Cronulla NRL players with the blood thinner warfarin because a jury also found he did "much, much worse", a court has heard.

A civil trial jury of three men and one woman on Tuesday handed down the final piece of their verdict in the defamation case brought by Mr Dank over a series of articles in The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph.

The NSW Supreme Court jury found on Monday that Mr Dank had acted with "reckless indifference" to NRL player Jon Mannah's life by giving him dangerous peptides that may have accelerated his death from cancer.

Mannah made his debut for Cronulla in 2011 and died two years later aged 23, after his Hodgkin's lymphoma relapsed.

Although jurors agreed Mr Dank had established that the meanings conveyed by articles by Josh Massoud, James Hooper and Rebecca Wilson were defamatory, the jury also found those meanings were substantially true.

Another article by Yoni Bashan did not convey the meanings complained of by Mr Dank, the jury found.

Justice Lucy McCallum on Tuesday ordered that Mr Dank pay the defendants' costs in the legal battle over those articles.

Related Articles

But a 2013 article which claimed Mr Dank gave warfarin to Cronulla footballers was defamatory, the jury declared.

The jurors found that Sunday Telegraph editor Mick Carroll and journalist Phil Rothfield had failed to make their defence of "contextual truth".

Tom Blackburn SC, acting for newspaper publisher Nationwide News, has urged Justice McCallum to award only nominal damages to Mr Dank over the warfarin article because, he said, the jury had accepted Mr Dank was involved in "much, much worse than the administration of warfarin".

"He's not to be compensated, in our submission, as if we had said of him in a complete vacuum that he had administered a dangerous substance, that is, warfarin, to football players," Mr Blackburn told the judge.

"He administered much more dangerous substances, cumulatively, than warfarin - in one case, (he administered substances) which caused the death, or hastened the death, I should say, of a player aged 23 years old."

Justice McCallum is expected to hand down her decision as early as this week.